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Title: The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems by Billy Collins by Billy Collins ISBN: 1-55728-024-X Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr Pub. Date: September, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Poems that Examine our Humanness
Comment: Collins has a wonderful, dry wit that shines through many of his poems. He has gained quite a reputation as a highly accessible poet, meaning that his poems appeal to a wide audience. And perhaps this is one of the reasons why he was selected to be the Poet Laureate of the U.S.
To say that Collins' poems are "accessible" may seem a bit of a slight. For, while Collins' use of simple and spare language may mean the average reader won't need to go running to his or her dictionary every stanza, that is not to say his poems are pure fluff. For example, in "Flying to a Funeral," Collins captures the emotional flux caused by a death:...
Collins is light and playful in many of his poems. He highlights the mundane details of our lives and makes us delight in them, see them as something other than the dreariness we make them out to be. Collins is a very imaginative poet, as well. He is able to write about History as if it were a houseguest, or even write verse about "The Morning After My Death":...
In this collection, Billy Collins covers the standard poetic targets of love, death, and art. In between, he helps us see the universality of experience, peppering it with laughter at ourselves -- and our humanness.
Rating: 4
Summary: Some gems
Comment: If you know and enjoy Billy's poems this volume is a necessity. There are some earlier pieces that are brilliantly focused and tight -- like a joke and a punchline. Others are more subtle, but always clear in language and meaning. There is no contemporary poet that I would recommend more highly.
Also check out The Best Cigarette CD for a great collection of Billy reading his work.
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Title: Questions About Angels (Pitt Poetry Series) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822956985 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Art of Drowning (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822955679 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sailing Alone Around the Room : New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins ISBN: 0375755195 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series (Paper)) by Billy Collins ISBN: 0822956705 Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins ISBN: 0965887308 Publisher: Cielo Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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